WO2012172289A1 - Umbilical hose with improved cyclic ovalisation resistance - Google Patents
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
- F16L—PIPES; JOINTS OR FITTINGS FOR PIPES; SUPPORTS FOR PIPES, CABLES OR PROTECTIVE TUBING; MEANS FOR THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
- F16L11/00—Hoses, i.e. flexible pipes
- F16L11/02—Hoses, i.e. flexible pipes made of fibres or threads, e.g. of textile which may or may not be impregnated, or provided with an impermeable layer, e.g. fire-hoses
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
- F16L—PIPES; JOINTS OR FITTINGS FOR PIPES; SUPPORTS FOR PIPES, CABLES OR PROTECTIVE TUBING; MEANS FOR THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
- F16L11/00—Hoses, i.e. flexible pipes
- F16L11/04—Hoses, i.e. flexible pipes made of rubber or flexible plastics
- F16L11/08—Hoses, i.e. flexible pipes made of rubber or flexible plastics with reinforcements embedded in the wall
- F16L11/085—Hoses, i.e. flexible pipes made of rubber or flexible plastics with reinforcements embedded in the wall comprising one or more braided layers
- F16L11/086—Hoses, i.e. flexible pipes made of rubber or flexible plastics with reinforcements embedded in the wall comprising one or more braided layers two layers
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
- F16L—PIPES; JOINTS OR FITTINGS FOR PIPES; SUPPORTS FOR PIPES, CABLES OR PROTECTIVE TUBING; MEANS FOR THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
- F16L11/00—Hoses, i.e. flexible pipes
- F16L11/04—Hoses, i.e. flexible pipes made of rubber or flexible plastics
- F16L11/08—Hoses, i.e. flexible pipes made of rubber or flexible plastics with reinforcements embedded in the wall
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
- F16L—PIPES; JOINTS OR FITTINGS FOR PIPES; SUPPORTS FOR PIPES, CABLES OR PROTECTIVE TUBING; MEANS FOR THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
- F16L11/00—Hoses, i.e. flexible pipes
- F16L11/20—Double-walled hoses, i.e. two concentric hoses
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
- F16L—PIPES; JOINTS OR FITTINGS FOR PIPES; SUPPORTS FOR PIPES, CABLES OR PROTECTIVE TUBING; MEANS FOR THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
- F16L11/00—Hoses, i.e. flexible pipes
- F16L11/22—Multi-channel hoses
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- the present invention relates to a hose or conduit for transporting fluids, usually hyrdocarbon fluids or hydraulic fluids, and in particular to a conduit or hose which forms part of an umbilical, for use in offshore drilling environments.
- a hydraulic sub-sea control umbilical hose for the purpose of the workover control where workover operations are performed on a sub-sea wellhead using a workover riser and/or for blow out preventer control and actuation.
- the standard practice has been to use a standard thermoplastic hydraulic subsea control umbilical hose, which umbilical hose contains a number of hoses for carrying fluid and may also carry electrical cabling and fibre optic cabling as required.
- hoses and cables carried within an umbilical are of a multilayer reinforced structure such as are known in the art so that they have appropriate pressure containment, burst and compression resistance for the usage envisaged.
- An example of an umbilical of the type supplied by the applicant is shown in Figure 1 in cross- section.
- umbilicals are stored, deployed and recovered from hydraulic or air powered reels on the top side (for example on a ship or other offshore structure). Such umbilicals are deployed, operated and recovered through a route containing one, two or three sheaves (wheels or rollers) depending on the applications and heave compensation systems used.
- the umbilicals are subject to various tensile and bending loads during deployment, operation and recovery whilst paid off and paid onto a reel, over various sheaves, roller guides and heave compensation systems. In operation the umbilicals also experience fatigue motions (small movements to and fro) which are generally of a smaller displacement but with a higher cycle.
- an umbilical when operating can either be static or moving through a roller sheave and may experience tension in the region of 5 - 20kN.
- the alternating and/or constant operating tensile loads within the umbilical are supported and absorbed.
- the contact loads between the rollers and the umbilical act on a small area of the umbilical and the rollers which results in high and varying contact pressures and deformation and ovalisation of the umbilical as the umbilical attempts to resist these loads. It will be understood that as the umbilical passes through the multiple roller sheaves it makes repeated intermittent contact with the rollers which results in differing deformation at any given location along an umbilical.
- the hoses are high pressure thermoplastic hoses which have hose reinforcement layers.
- the contact forces and aforementioned ovalisation damage the hose pressure containment reinforcement layers due to lateral cyclic compression forces and fibre abrasion between adjacent fibres and the polymers of the pipe core tube and/or the outer jacket occurs due to the relative movement whilst under tensile and lateral compressive loads.
- This ovalisation and associated damage can result in the hose pressure containment capacity reducing significantly from up to four times that of the working pressure of the hose to levels around actual working pressure such that hose failure may occur in the field during operation when significant operational umbilical life has been consumed. It has been found that this ovalisation and gradual degradation is not linear but exponentially more aggressive at the start of the operational life of an umbilical.
- hoses used in umbilicals generally comprise a hose liner core tube, typically of Nylon 1 1 or polyethylene which is surrounded by an inner braided layer and an outer braided layer, around which a hose outer jacket is extruded, typically nylon or polyethylene.
- the braided layers (inner and outer), which provide the appropriate pressure containment, burst and compression resistance are made from braided layers of high strength fibre, typically aramid fibres.
- Aramid fibres are used extensively in underwater applications, such as umbilicals and hoses, as they provide the required mechanical properties including good axial stiffness and tensile strength.
- Aramids however have generally poor self abrasion resistance (fibre to fibre) as well as poor abrasion resistance to hose liner core tube materials. It is an object of the present invention to provide an improved hose for use within an umbilical which avoids or minimises one or more of the aforementioned disadvantages of known systems. Description of the Invention
- the present invention provides a high pressure hose for use within an umbilical, the high pressure hose comprising:
- a hose liner core tube surrounded by a first reinforcement layer comprised substantially of ultra high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) fibres; a second reinforcement layer surrounding said first reinforcement layer, said second layer comprising fibres, at least 50% of which are aramid; and an outer thermoplastic extruded hose jacket.
- UHMWPE ultra high molecular weight polyethylene
- the second reinforcement layer may be comprised substantially of aramid fibres.
- first and second reinforcement layers are in contact with each other i.e. the second reinforcement layer is laid directly onto the first reinforcement layer.
- the high pressure hose according to the present invention there may be provided improved performance over known types of high pressure hoses, of the type used in umbilicals.
- the first reinforcement layer may consist essentially of, or consist of, ultra high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) fibres.
- the second reinforcement layer may consist essentially of, or consist of aramid fibres. However other fibres may be included in the layers.
- the first reinforcement layer may typically consist of ultra high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) fibres.
- the second reinforcement layer may typically have fibres other than aramid present. For example the second reinforcement layer may have 50% or more aramid fibres with other fibres constituting the remaining content.
- the hose core liner tube is made from Nylon 11 or polyethylene, usually an extruded tube.
- the first reinforcement layer of ultra high molecular weight polyethylene fibres is a braided layer, desirably wherein there is a plurality of individual strands arranged together and braided together.
- the fibres of the first reinforcement layer have improved abrasion resistance in comparison to conventional aramid fibres and a particularly desirable fibre is an ultra high molecular weight polyethylene such as Spectra® and Dyneema® spun fibres available from Honeywell speciality materials and Royal DS MV respectively. These fibres have higher creep resistance level to that of conventional aramid fibres which have unsuitable impulse and volumetric expansion performance characteristics for applications of this type.
- the hose is particularly useful in applications such as the sub-sea applications discussed above under the heading Background to the Invention. Even when protected inside an umbilical casing, hoses for sub-sea use are subject to substantial, typically cyclic, ovalisation forces. The hoses described herein can show exceptional fatigue performance when subject to repeated ovalisation.
- said first reinforcement layer comprised of substantially high molecular weight polyethylene fibres may include a mixture of untwisted or twisted fibres. It may also include strands of aramid, all twisted together with high molecular weight polyethylene fibres to form a single strand which may then be wound either helically or preferably in a braided arrangement.
- the reinforcement layers are applied in either a contra helical lay using a spiral winder planetary lay up machine or, where a braided construction is desired, by using a maypole braiding machine.
- the fibres are arranged in groups of fibre yarns, typically five fibre yarns laid side by side.
- each pitch or lay length of the helix of a group of fibre yarns in a layer of fibre reinforcement are adjacent and in contact with each other such that when applied to the hose core liner tube the tensile strength and fatigue performance of the finished hose can be maximised.
- the lay angle of the groups of fibre yarns is between 15 and 30 degrees with respect to the axial direction of the hose.
- the first reinforcement layer provides for 100% coverage of the hose core liner tube.
- the second layer surrounding the first layer has 100% coverage.
- the second layer of aramid fibres may also comprise strands of UH WPE material however such materials have a low ability to withstand heat and a subsequent low melting point so it is desirable to minimise the use of such materials as the outer hose jacket is a thermoplastic which is hot extruded onto the second layer.
- Hoses of the invention may have other layers present, for example to provide further reinforcement or chemical resistance etc. However hoses consisting of just the four layers:
- first reinforcement layer comprised substantially of, consisting essentially of, or consisting of ultra high molecular weight polyethylene fibres
- said second layer comprising fibres at least 50% of which are aramid (optionally the second layer is comprised substantially of, consisting essentially of, or consisting of aramid fibres) ;
- thermoplastic extruded hose jacket an outer thermoplastic extruded hose jacket
- Figure 1 shows in schematic cross section an umbilical including a high pressure hose of the invention
- FIG. 2 shows a high pressure hose of the invention. Description of the Drawings
- FIG 2 shows a high pressure hose for use within an umbilical (of the type shown in figure 1 ).
- the hose generally indicated by reference number 10 comprises a hose core liner tube of polyethylene (12);
- the liner tube 12 being surrounded by a first reinforcement layer 14 comprised of ultra high molecular weight polyethylene fibres in a braided arrangement providing 100% coverage to the liner tube 12.
- the first reinforcement layer 14 is surrounded by a second reinforcement layer 16 which is comprised of aramid fibres arranged in a braided manner.
- each of the braided elements indicated by reference number (20) comprises a number of individual strands, typically four or five strands. See detail in Fig 2a.
- the first and second layers are then surrounded by an outer thermoplastic extruded hose jacket of polyethylene 18.
- a third reinforcement layer comprised of aramid fibres arranged in a braided manner which would then be encapsulated by the thermoplastic extruded hose jacket.
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